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THE GUIDE TO CATHOLIC LITERATURE, 1940-1944
Larsson, Raymond Edward-continued
each terse biography are one or more prayers
ascribed to its subject; in many instances a saiiit‘s
written advice on prayer is also given. . . . The
volume bears Arcbbisliop Spellman’s Imprimatur,
and is a true book of devotion, one that we may
use with a sense of freedom for we are secure
when we pray with the saints”-Daisy E. Moseley,
Commonweal 351441 F 20 ’42, 375w.
“The idea underlying Saints at Prayer is a good
one, and we believe Mr. Larssoii is thoroughly
competent to edit such a volume,-but he should
have enlisted the help of someone to direct him to
nrst-hand sources. instead of compiling things at
second and third hand”-Orate Fratres 16:38.3 Je
I4 '42, 450w. -
W. T. Craddick, Ave Maria 56:lS4 Ag 1 ’42,
115W.
Weep and prepare: selected poems, 1926-
1939. 168p. 6%x8V2 ’40 Coward-McCann.
2.50.
“Certainly the poet has need of hard, positive
ratiocination. lVliat Mr. Larsson does afford is
spiritualized feeling of great poignancy and sig-
nificance. It may be that the patterns of his emo-
tions are sometimes elusive or involute; but they
are drawn on a background of significant and noble
experience. And when you find he has the gift of
giving those patterns a very arresting pictorial
character, you realize that Larsson both expresses
the present and transcends it. . . . Go gently
when you meet a>poet like this. For he will be
remembered”-George N. Sliuster, Commonweal
33:35 O 25 ’40, 400w.
“Mr. Larsson’s volume is se'ected out of the
three he has previously published, and he has
arranged it so adroitly as to give an unusual unity
to his work. This is especially important in view
of the musical motif that rims through each sepa-
rate poem and the symphonic effect achieved by
the poems taken together. . . . If this work had
no other interest--and it has a great deal-it
would at least show that it is perfectly possible to
be thoroughly motlernist in manner and thoroughly
Catholic in thought and feeling"-Theodore May-
nard. Cath lVorld 152:2-41 N ’40, 330w.
Clifford J. Laube, Spirit 7:156 N '40, 450w.
Lasance, Francis Xavier (1860- ): born in
Cincinnati; ordained, ’83; now retired at
St. Francis Hospital, Cincinnati: See his
sketch in Amer. Cath. VVho’s VVho, v6
(’44-45), and-liis entry in The Guide, vl.
(comp) Beatitudes, The: maxims of true
wisdom, fundamentals of Christian morality,
the way to real and everlasting happiness.
176p. 4x6 ’40 front, pl Benziger. 1.25.
“Through his own reflections and quotations
from the lives of the saints, Fr. Lasance brings a
timely reminder that Christ honored eight virtues
which are conteiimtible in the eyes of the world,
with the title of beatitudes. As proof that these
virtues are not impossible of acquirement, even in
the highest degree, he advances the examples of
many true followers of Christ, His Apostles and
His holy ones who have lived in the various cen-
,turies since"-Magnificat 68:56 My '41. 125w.
gister M. Philip, Ave Maria 532282 Mr 1 '41,
“'.
Ligourian 30:63 Ja ’42, SSW.
The new Roman iiiissal. 1852p. ’41 Ben-
zigcr. 3.75-15.00.
Co-author: Francis Augustine XValsh, O.S.B.
Parish Vis 17:62 O ’41, 230w.
315
Lasserre, Henri de Monzie de (1828-1900):
a Protestant; he was cured of an eye ail-
ment at Lourdes and wrote the stor-y of
the shrine in gratitude; see his entry in
The Guide, v1.
Our Lady of Lourdes; abr. tr. from the
French, first published in 1869 during the
lifetime of Bernadette Soubirous; pref. let-
ter by Pope Pius IX; pref. by the author.
172p. 5y2x8 ’43 Catechetical Guild. pa.
The standard history from which all later ac-
counts of the famous apparitions are drawn. The
faithful witness of a contemporary and devoted
historian.
Last essays. Gill, E.
Last of summer. O’Brien, K.
Last supper. Long, V.
La Taille, Maurice dc (S.I.)(1872-1933):
b. Semblancay, France; s. of Comte de la
Taille; educ. St. Mary’s C0ll., Canter-
bury; joined the Jesuits, 1890; Licenciate
at the Sorboniie, 1898; priest, 1901; lect.
in tlieol., U. of Angers, ’05-16; served as
private in World War; prof. of dogmatic
tlieol., Gregorian U., Rome, ’20 till his
death; see entry in The Guide, vl.
Mystery of faith, regarding the most
august sacrament and sacrifice of the body
and blood of Christ; tr. from the Latin
(Mysterium fidei. 1919). v1, The sacrifice
of our Lord; pref. xx-255p. bibliog f
6V-,:x9V2 ’40 Sliced. 3.50.
Thesis: Our Lord at the Last Supper, by the
twofold consecration and changing of the bread
and wine into His Body and Blood, symbolized His
death to come and made a solemn and liturgical
offering or oblation of Himself as Victim. The
Supper was thus an integral part of the one sacri-
fice completed on Calvary by,the slaying or im-
molation at the hands of the executioners. The
divine acceptance was shown in the Resurrection,
but Christ remains a Victim, eternally pleading,
since His Ascension, for the sins of man, by His
presence at the Father's right hand. The Mass is
a true sacrifice, not because of any real immolation,
but because by the same symbolic slaying which
He instituted we make a real oblation of the Vic-
tim slain once and for all.
VVhen the Latin edition appeared in 1919 it “was
at once a landmark and a sensation. It dealt ex-
haustively with the theology of the Holy Eucharist
as sacrifice and sacrament and may well be de-
scribed as the dogmatic Magna Charta of the litur-
gical movement. The author's extraordinary fa-
miliarity with the writings of doctors and theo-
logians of all ages. the clarity of his thought, his
wonderful power of synthesis, enabled him to treat
his subject so that one can liardly imagine there
being anything more to be said."--Rev. . Law-
rasoii Riggs, Commonweal 33 :333 Ja 17 '41, 400w.
“It is universally recognized that Fr. de la Taille
has given the Church a monumental work in eu-
cliaristic theology. . . . The central theme is that
our Savior in the cenacle on the night before His
death offered in a liturgical rite His body and
blood to be immolated on Calvary, so that the
Supper and the Cross together constituted numeri-
cally one sacrifice. In connection with this main